Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000)

Part 3 : Access to Records of Private Bodies

Chapter 2 : Publication and Availability of certain records

52A Recording, preservation and disclosure of records on private funding of political parties

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(1) The head of a political party must—
(a) create and keep records of—
(i) any donation exceeding the prescribed threshold that has been made to that political party in any given financial year; and
(ii) the identity of the persons or entities who made such donations;
(b) make the records available on a quarterly basis, as prescribed; and
(c) keep the records for a period of at least five years after the records concerned have been created.

 

(2) For the purposes of this section—
(a) "donation" means a donation as defined in section 1;
(b) "financial year" means a financial year as defined in section 1; and
(c) "prescribed threshold" means the prescribed threshold contemplated in section 9(1)(a),

of the Political Party Funding Act, 2018 (Act No. 6 of 2018).

 

[Section 52A inserted by section 2 of Notice No. 630, GG43388, dated 3 June 2020]